A True Beast of Land and Water: The Gunpowder Mutation of Amphibious Warfare (original) (raw)

De Gruyter eBooks, 2022

Abstract

The early modern upheaval in the practice of warfare, the so-called military revolution, has become a cliché in historical studies. Despite its spectacular historiographical “landslide,” the concept is counter-charged and debated relentlessly. Comparatively recently historians who had focused on the military revolutions in land warfare and naval expansion have recognized the significance of the amphibious dimension. Amphibious warfare, relatively unexplored historiographically in relation to the military revolution (and often dismissed as merely the practice of special operations involving land and sea), is advancing now as the third spearhead of military revolution studies. Transformations in amphibious warfare occurred roughly simultaneously with those developments that have been associated with the “gunpowder revolution” in general.

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